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...best time for portraits of important men, famed Portrait Photographers Fabian and Bradford Bachrach told the New York Herald Tribune's Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg. One of the Bachrachs' most difficult subjects, they said, was Thomas E. Dewey. The toughest of all was the late Rorello La Guardia, who "would never sit still." They recalled their favorite "trick"-on overworked President Herbert Hoover at the start of the 1932 presidential campaign. He was too tired to sit erect when he came in for the sitting: "We stacked seven books in a chair and asked Mr. Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: That Old Feeling | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...Rorello LaGuardia, Manhattan's hustling, bustling little Mayor, who in eleven years of office has proved a tar baby for nicknames ("Butch," "The Hat," "The Little Flower"), was tagged anew at the opening of an "Eat More Fish" campaign: "The Little Flounder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 15, 1945 | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

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